Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards

The Good Dairy Award launched for food organisations improving the lives of cows and calves.

Compassion in World Farming will hold its annual Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards at the Union Grand Lodge in London on Wednesday 6 July 2011. The event awards food companies making positive steps towards higher farm animal welfare standards, attracting huge brands such as McDonalds, Hellmans, Mr Kipling and all the major supermarkets in the UK.

The evening will be hosted by TV chef and farm animal welfare advocate, Paul Merrett. Paul will be joined by other celebrity guests who will present awards and motivate the audience to continue its good work for farm animals in the UK.

The Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards is a unique industry event, which includes accolades such as The Good Egg, The Good Chicken, The Supermarket Awards, and new this year, The Good Dairy Award.

Winners in 2010 included: Waitrose, Coca-Cola, Virgin Trains, Pret a Manger and numerous local councils and universities.

Compassion in World Farming is the leading international farm animal welfare charity, campaigning to end the cruel practice of factory farming. Launched in 2007, Compassions Food Business Team works with some of the worlds top food companies, inspiring progress through the awards scheme and supporting products and initiatives which represent tangible benefits for both farm animals and businesses. Compassion, working with the food industry, improves the lives of millions of farm animals each year, moving towards a more ethical and sustainable food supply.

For more information, please visit www.compassioninfoodbusiness.com

Compassion in World Farmings Food Business Team:

• Compassion in World Farmings Food Business Team engages with Europes leading food companies, inspiring progress through prestigious awards and supporting products and initiatives which represent tangible benefits for farm animals. We also encourage higher-welfare food purchasing in the public sector.

• To find out more about the wrok of the Food Business team, visit

www.compassioninfoodbusiness.org

• Compassion in World Farmings Food Business Team is generously supported by The Tubney Charitable Trust; a grant making charity seeking to support activities that have a long term, sustainable, positive impact on the biodiversity of the UK and on the welfare of farmed animals in the UK and internationally.

About the Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards 2011

• The Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards 2011 were presented in four categories: The Good Egg Awards (rewarding organisations who make the commitment to source cage-free eggs ); The Good Chicken Awards (rewarding organisations who make the commitment to source higher welfare chicken) The good Dairy Awards (rewarding organisations who make the commitment to source dairy produce from higher welfare cows) and the Supermarket Awards (based on the results of our Supermarket Survey YEAR)

Award winners 2010

GOOD EGG AWARDS

Sodexo Prestige

Scottish Government / Sodexo

Garrets

Leith’s QEII

Metropolitan Police

Westmorland

Pride Catering

Accent Catering

Met Office / Compass

Coca Cola / Compass

NUS Services

Pieminister

Superquinn

Battersea Dogs Home

GOOD CHICKEN AWARDS

The Cooperative Food

Sainsbury’s

Waitrose

M&S

Pret A Manger

Garrets Ltd

Virgin Trains

Higgidy Pies

Pieminster

Battersea Dogs Home

SUPERMARKET AWARDS

Waitrose (Most Compassionate Supermarket)

Morrisons (Most Improved Supermarket)

Sainsbury’s (Best Volume Supermarket)